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When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Laurie Beth Halse
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She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.
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Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.
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Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction.
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It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.
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I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it.
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The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.
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I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are.
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Bologna girl, that's me.
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I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
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Kids are mostly very resilient.
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I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.
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Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.
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Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.
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The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.
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I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.
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A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.
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Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.
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I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.
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The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.
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I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page
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